The city stays beaming and breathing while others sleep<\/p>\n
it lights up on weekends<\/p>\n
the bubble spreads like a wildfire<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
alcohol exhumes wild personalities tucked in all week<\/p>\n
loud pass hands<\/p>\n
bodies seek warmth in others<\/p>\n
the city is alive in a high mood<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Saturdays are for owambe<\/p>\n
there’s an aunty in yellow-<\/p>\n
her face is beat fifty shades lighter<\/p>\n
her gele stands tall<\/p>\n
how else do you know she has arrived-<\/p>\n
if her aso-oke doesn’t speak hundreds of thousands of naira?<\/p>\n
that jewelry is definitely from Dubai<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
she orders for amala<\/p>\n
there must be ogunfe and big fish<\/p>\n
those bottles of minerals would find a home in her bag<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Her daughter’s waist is snatched in a corset<\/p>\n
this is the hundredth wedding she is attending as an asoebi girl<\/p>\n
but who is keeping count?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sundays are holy, sabbath should be kept<\/p>\n
those wild bodies go back to God<\/p>\n
with gloomy faces they sit through sermons-<\/p>\n
prepared to tuck the wildness in work pants the next day<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
While dawn stretches each morning, the city sits wide awake<\/p>\n
the scorching sun rises and sets on the backs of the working class<\/p>\n
they sit packed in buses and cars<\/p>\n
some shirts billow on bikes avoiding the traffic jam<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the city plays a game of make or break<\/p>\n
every sojourner desires to be another star<\/p>\n
some give up this hope early<\/p>\n
some do not but-<\/p>\n
“eko oni baje”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the five days of the week drag<\/p>\n
patiently like fanatics, they wait to unleash their beasts<\/p>\n
faithful in this religion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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